e. e. cummings' editor published him this way to make him stand out, and now everybody writes his name this way.

don marquis wrote a series of newspaper columns in the early 20th century supposedly typed by archy the cockroach, who, while he had the strength to work the keys (by climbing up on top of the type writer and jumping down on the keys) did not have enough strength to work the shift. there was a whole cast of characters in archy's world, including a cat mehitabel. some of the Archy and Mehitabel columns were collected into a series of books.

in the hungarian book pál utcai fiúk (the boys from paul street) nemecsek ernő's name is written in the titular gang's book with all lower case and with black ink as a mean of dishonor. due to pop cultural osmosis, doing this deliberately in a publication became a mean of insult in hungarian.

After the Quake's chapter titles are all written in lowercase. the english version of the book also has the title in lowercase.

australian poet joanne burns actually changed her name to lowercase. however, she does use uppercase letters occasionally in her work.

the Beastie Boys albums paul's boutique and hello nasty take this trope Up to Eleven by having the liner notes be a simple fold-out with all the lyrics printed in lowercase without punctuation, making for a Wall of Text that can be difficult to follow at times. check your head side-steps the issue entirely by not having lyrics, while ill communication has all the lyrics written normally but in an eye-strainingly small font.

Chainsawsuit, though it occasionally uses capital letters for emphasis.

davan in Something Positive writes like this in instant messenger. it becomes a minor plot point when eva's ex pretends to be davan online, but fails to fool jason because he writes with correct capitalization.

ickle's name from My Milk Toof is always spelt in lowercase to exaggerate his size.

alda henning from the breeder arc in unity, who only capitalizes the name of her mistress

also, the cartoonist goes by an all-lowercase "fluffy," although this is claimed more to be for typographic purity

Monocameral scripts, such as the Georgian Alphabet, Mkhdruli, due to not having cases, by default do this.

herbert bayer, from the famous german bauhaus school of design, banned the use of uppercase letters in school materials in 1925 ("we only use small characters because it saves time. moreover, why have 2 alphabets when one will do? why write capitals if we cannot speak capitals?"). the most iconic "bauhaus" typeform is based on his "universal" typeface.

a whole lot of internet forum users. sometimes inverted by having every letter capitalized like Title Case.

the current (as of 2009) pepsi logo

also the current (as of 2000) bp logo

officially, the "it's a small world" attraction at Disney Theme Parks is "properly" spelled with all lowercase letters. it's still frequently referred to using capitalization though, even by disney themselves.

some grammar textbooks for grade school kids will have exercises with the directions to rewrite sentences written like this with properly capitalized words.

many transcriptions of latin and greek texts use only lower-case letters. this is because the original texts in the classical period inverted this trope - they had no capital or lower case distinction, and everything was capitalized. it is much easier on the eyes to read all lower-case letters, however, in most modern typefaces, so the modern practice inverts the completely capitalized original text. such ancient texts in their original forms also contained No Punctuation Period nor any spaces, but are given spaces and some punctuation in modern renditions.

original texts in greek minuscule and roman-era latin cursive (to a lesser extent than greek, as many of the letterforms are too different from their modern counterparts to be recognisable) play this trope straight, however.

elementary school students learning cursive are usually taught lowercase letters first, resulting in this when they attempt to write names or sentences in cursive before finishing the unit.

Zachary Quinto writes his rare blog postings and his twitter in all lowercase letters. sometimes without paragraph breaks, as well.

christopher poole (aka, moot, mootykins) creator of 4chan and it's spin-off canv.as always types like this when replying to his users, due to the nature of users in question no one knows if it's purposeful or if he's a moron.